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Fox News continued to push for a special prosecutor following reports that the White House chief counsel knew of an IRS investigation but did not inform the president, a claim that ignores the legal and political problems raised by involving a president in an ongoing investigation.

PFEIFFER CALLS IRS ACTIVITY 'INEXCUSABLE': White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told ABC's GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS yesterday that the legality surrounding the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service is "irrelevant," but called the behavior "outrageous and inexcusable." "I can't speak to the law here.

A top U.S. Senate Democrat said Congress should expand its focus on the Internal Revenue Service and examine the use of non-profit groups for partisan purposes.

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Sunday morning on ABC's This Week , White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that the legality surrounding the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue service is "irrelevant," but called the behavior "inexcusable." "I can't speak to the law here.

Good Morning. Don't you love the little sunshine daisies? They are quite rare due to habitat destruction and the fact they need to be pollinated by a plant they aren't directly related to.

HEADLINERS Dan Pfeiffer, Assistant to the President and Senior Adviser Sen. Bob Menendez, D - New Jersey, Chair, Foreign Relations Committee; Finance Committee Sen.

Could Ed and Shannon FitzGerald be moving to Columbus next year? The Cuyahoga County executive is perhaps the strongest Democratic candidate for governor in years, but Republican incumbent John Kasich will be a tough opponent.

HEADLINERS Dan Pfeiffer, Assistant to the President and Senior Adviser Sen. Bob Menendez, D - New Jersey, Chair, Foreign Relations Committee; Finance Committee Sen.

ABC's "This Week" - White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer; Sen. Robert Menendez, D- N.J.; Sen.

The award-winning daily program about business and finance puts a human face on the global economy, with insight from anchor Kai Ryssdal.

Lawmakers are ready to question the ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service as Congress holds its first hearing on the tougher scrutiny the IRS gave tea party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.

The Ohio Liberty Coalition and 16 other tea party groups could file a civil suit against the Internal Revenue Service as soon as next week, according to an attorney representing 27 tea party organizations from around the nation.

Former Romney-campaign strategist Stuart Stevens predicts that Hillary Clinton will lose the Democratic presidential primary in 2016, arguing that the former secretary of state has significant political vulnerabilities.

A federal tax on medical devices went into effect at the beginning of the year. As part of President Obama's healthcare bill signed into law four years ago, a 2.3 percent tax will be assessed on companies that produce anything from wheelchairs to pacemakers.

Like a lot of Americans, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said a law banning workplace discrimination against LGBT people would impact his family personally.

Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, a former Cabinet official, says President Obama should come clean on his administration's "incompetence." "An apology isn't what people are looking for," he says.

Members of Congress and their allies, antagonists and observers ran around Washington early Wednesday morning, hoping to come out ahead in the 3-mile ACLI Capital Challenge .

May 15-- U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., today joined his colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee in sending a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius demanding details of a fundraising scheme in which she has solicited funds from the health care companies she regulates to help launch Obamacare.

It has been more than three years since the Liberty Township Tea Party in southwest Ohio first sought tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service.